On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>> I'm actually curious as to how the session participants reached this consensus (probably on a separate thread). It seems like the bar shouldn't too high for removing prefixed APIs when they are unprefixed equivalents because I'm certain web developers want to use the ones that work on all browsers instead of just on WebKit.
Here's some evidence that Web developers do not always care about this, and that lack of support for webkit-prefixed properties can be detrimental to Web compatibility:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mobile-emulator-experimental-webkit-prefix-support/
Regards,
Maciej